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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Bookish Must-Haves

1.Books

You can’t be bookish or a
booknerd or a bookworm without books, it’s the first thing you must have
whether it be any genre, from YA to NA to Adult and whether they be physical
copies, ebooks or audiobooks, it doesn’t matter as long as you have books.

2.Bookshelf

Where are you going to put
all your treasures, not in a chest no, but like in an art gallery, have
somewhere you’re going to display them, be proud of all those worlds you have
been. So you need to get a pretty well organized and a neat bookshelf to fit
all your, whether it be paperbacks, hardcovers or arcs. You need to maintain
the cleanliness of your bookshelf, always have it dusted so that the books
pages won’t get yellowy or splotched. You should preferably get a bookshelf
that has a glass cover, not only for how it looks but how long lasting it could
protect your books as well.

3.E-reader

Books cost a lot. Like $9 is
hard earned, especially here on PH, if you are still studying you have to save
some of your allowance even if it means not eating the best food you’ve been
craving, even if it means walking home. It’s expensive to be a booknerd. It
could only be a hobby for the rich people, but no, even if you don’t have that
much money, as long as you’re driven by the same passion everything is
possible. Thank God for those people who invented e-readers and nook books or
ebooks. If you can’t afford to buy a physical copy of the book you could buy
the ebook copies instead, sometimes they are a lot cheaper, especially when there
are ebook deals, they only cost a dollar and 99 cents equals 89.55 pesos. So
you save a lot.

Here are some apps if you
can’t buy a nook device or a kindle device. As long as you have an iphone or an
android phone, you’re good. You can download them on Playstore for free.

1.Amazon Kindle – I have the kindle app, I
use it for the nook books I buy from amazon and to read the DRCs (Digital
review copies) I receive from Netgalley.

2.Aldiko – Aldiko is a good reader for
books with DRC licences-it’s good for DRCs as well as PDF files.

3.Moon Reader – This reader is the best
app you could use to read all your ebook copies. I have the PRO version of this
app and it’s very awesome because you can change the fonts, the backgrounds,
the size of the book covers, the visuals. It also shows your reading stats, how
many words per hour do you read, etc. It’s my favorite e-reader.

4.Fandom
Merchs

Once you read a book, a
trilogy or a whole series, you’re then a part of the fandom. Once you’re a part
of the fandom, you belong to the family. “Fandom before blood.” You then feel
like you must have the items that the main character have in the book that
you’ve read. For example:

And a whole lot more, as I
said it’s expensive to be a booknerd. But once you have all the fandom merch of
the books you love, well it is satisfying and fulfilling to have them as
treasured possessions.

Wear what you read. That
should be your motto. Wear your fandoms and be proud of it. Have a Hunger Games
Tee, that says, “If we burn, you burn with us.” Have a Maze Runner Tee that
says, “Run for your life, shank.” Have a Camp Halfblood Tee, an SPQR Tee, a
TFIOS Shirt that says “Okay? Okay.” Have a Divergent Tee that says “I am
Divergent and I cannot be controlled.” Have a multifandom tee! So that when
people of the same fandom see you wearing that shirt, you never know they might
approach you and then you fangirl/fanboy about your fandoms, meet the book bff
of your life.

I have a collection of fandom
shirts now, and I think I have, THG, TMI, TID, TFIOS, TMR, Divergent, Shatter
Me, Mara Dyer, CHB, and a multi-fandom tee. And I’m totally getting more fandom
tees printed.

Oh once you got the official
fangirl status, even if you’re not a book blogger or anything, you totally
should get or buy, yes you can buy them, signed copies of the books from your
favorite authors, they might be a little more costly but they’re worth it. Also
it would also be awesome if you get signed book swags from your favorite
authors by joining book giveaways, tweeting or emailing them. Book swags are
like signed bookmarks, book plates, posters, wrist bands, etc. For me this is
the most bookish must have.

7.Book
Lights

Don’t you just get tired
reading in the dark? Like with an e-reader or a flashlight or a lamp. I bet you
do, also you are ruining your eyes! Your eyes are the most important thing of
all for reading, for being a booknerd, take care of it. You should get a book
lamp that the lighting is good for your eyes.

I have this LED READING PANEL
I bought online and I swear it’s the perfect book light a booknerd like you can
ever have. Just slip the panel on the page you’re reading and perfect! No need to
hold a flashlight or deal with the dim light of a lamp!

You may or may not be
addicted to coffee as I am but it’s a need to have an awesome mug while you’re
drinking coffee or tea or milk while you are reading! With a book mug of yours
cheers to more books to read and later hours of sleeping!

These are mostly the things I
can think of that all of us bookish people must have in our lives, they
complete us as book lovers and they make life worth living and books worth
reading!

4 comments:

You're totally awesome! I must admit I don't have many of these must- haves, but it doesn't mean I have to be discouraged with my love of reading. I must say thanks for this post. I think this is a great help for me as a beginner in the field of being a bookworm/bibliophile/simply a reader. :)

Hi Najera! This post should encourage you to read more, not because you don't have much of these must-haves, you're not a great reader anymore! You are so keep on reading good books! Thank you so much for reading. :)

Interesting post to read. I only have 1, 2, 3 and a little of 6 (but gifts), and 7. I like better spend on books, even some fandom merchs are really nice. I had a "more-fan" period when I was reading HP fanfics.